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Intel® “Thread Like Wildfire” Contest Description
The Intel® Software Network team recently released source code for the Smoke Game Technology Demo. Smoke is a demo that showcases a framework to support n-way threading of game technologies. By properly threading a game it can have more accurate physics, smarter AI, more particles, and/or a faster frame-rate. Smoke demonstrates one way to achieve better games.
This contest encourages game developers to download the demo and submit back to the Intel® Software Network examples of how they used it, the benefits they experienced, or technical suggestions on how to improve the framework. The contest starts in June 1, 2009 and will continue up to December 31, 2009.
How To Enter
Submit a video, code sample, article / white paper, or a working demo using the Smoke code downloaded from the Intel Smoke Game Technology Demo site (http://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/smoke-game-technology-demo/) . The entry must use the Smoke code demo or must detail specific improvements and suggestions to the code demo. Entries must be received by midnight (U.S. Pacific Standard Time) of the last day of each month to qualify for the prizes for that month. Entries received beyond that deadline will qualify for prizes for the following month.
By uploading your entry, you agree to be bound by the Contest Rules (Rules) set forth in this document. If you do not agree to these Rules, do not submit your entry.
To enter you must also register for the contest at http://www.intel.com/software/thread-like-wildfire. You will be asked to enter contact information so that Intel can contact you for contest announcements and prize distribution. Your contact information will be treated in accordance with Intel’s privacy policy which you can review at http://www.intel.com/sites/corporate/privacy.htm?iid=homepage+ftr_privacy.
Prizes
Each month three (3) entries will be selected to each receive a USD $300 gift card from GAMESTOP* (www.gamestop.com), which can be redeemed for video games and other accessories offered at this retailer. GAMESTOP* can ship to any address worldwide and some of the games are available for digital download to your PC.
Criteria and Selection of Prize Recipients
The three (3) recipients of the prizes for each month will be selected by our Intel panel of community managers and application engineers who are involved in game development. Entries will be judged on creativity and innovative ideas of using, modifying or enhancing the Smoke Demo code. Winners will be notified by email at most fifteen days (15) after the submission deadline. An individual can submit multiple entries in a month (or throughout the contest) but can only receive a maximum of one (1) prize every month.
Legal Documents
Privacy Policy, http://www.intel.com/sites/sitewide/en_US/privacy/privacy.htm?iid=ftr+privacy
Terms of Use, http://www.intel.com/sites/corporate/termsofuse.htm
Thread Like Wildfire Contest Rules (this document).
Intel® Thread Like Wildfire Contest Rules
1. These rules (including the Intel Privacy Policy and the www.intel.com Terms of Use) govern the Intel® Thread Like Wildfire Contest (the “Contest”) and set out the terms and conditions between Intel Corporation and its affiliates (“Intel” or “us/we”) and each participant (“participant” or “you”).
2. You are eligible to participate in the Contest if you have registered for the Contest.
3. You must speak, read and understand English and you must be aged 18 years or over or you must obtain the consent of your parents or legal guardian before you participate in the Contest. If you apply to register for the Contest, if you contribute to the Contest or the Intel® SN community once you are registered or if you accept any Contest prizes, you accept these rules. Employees of Intel Corporation, its affiliates, subsidiaries, advertising and promotion agencies, and the immediate families of each may not enter. This limitation is void where prohibited.
4. The Contest is open to participants worldwide. All national and local laws and regulations of the resident’s country of residence apply. Residents of countries under U.S. embargo are not eligible to enter. The Contest is void wherever else it is restricted or prohibited by law.
5. We may refuse your Entry for any good reason.
6. Intel provides you with access to a variety of resources on Intel® SN, including communication forums, documentation, download areas, code samples, videos, blogs, articles and Programs (the “resources”).
7. You agree to submit Entries to the Contest on www.intel.com/software under the following conditions:
a. Intel does not claim ownership of your Entries to the Contest in form of sample code, content, videos, articles or any other Entries you submit to Intel® SN. By submitting your Entries, you are granting Intel and its affiliated companies the following worldwide, non-exclusive, perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free, unconditional, fully paid-up rights: (1) to make, have made, use, copy, reproduce, modify, and create derivative works of the Entries, (2) to publicly perform or display, import, broadcast, transmit, distribute (directly and indirectly through multiple tiers), license, offer to sell and sell, rent, lease, or lend copies of the Entries (and derivative works thereof), (3) to sublicense to third parties the foregoing rights, including the right to sublicense to further third parties, and (4) to publish your name or alias in connection with this Contest and your Entries.
b. Your Entries to the Contest will be available to other participants and to ensure they are safe and freely usable by other participants, you warrant that:
• you own or otherwise have all rights necessary for you to provide the Entries and grant the rights described above and you do not disclose any information which would constitute a violation of a confidentiality obligation;
• your Entries do not contain any viruses, worms, spy ware, or other components or instructions that are malicious, deceptive, or designed to limit or harm the functionality of a computer; and
• your Entries are not subject to license terms that require any software or documentation incorporating or being derived from your Entries to be licensed to others.
c. Apart from prizes offered as part of the Contest, no monetary compensation will be paid for any of your Contest Entries.
8. Intel is not responsible for Contest Entries not received due to lost, failed, delayed or interrupted connections or miscommunications, or other electronic malfunctions. Intel is not responsible for incorrect or inaccurate Entry, whether caused by you or any other persons or by any of the equipment or programming associated with or utilized in the Contest.
9. You may be required to provide Intel a Taxpayer Identification Number ("TIN") prior to the awarding of any prize. You may be required to sign and return releases of liability, declarations of eligibility, and where lawful, publicity consent agreements, within five (5) days of acknowledged notification. If a selected potential winner cannot be contacted, is ineligible (under these rules or due to a failure to comply with any of the other applicable policies, licenses, rules, and terms of service, fails to claim a prize, or fails to timely return the completed and executed releases/agreements as required), prize may be forfeited and an alternate potential winner may, at Intel’s discretion, be selected. Physical prizes awarded for the winning Entries will be sent to participants within six (6) weeks from the date of the notification email or confirmation of the winning participant’s physical address, whichever is later.
10. Prizes are personal to the participant submitting the winning Entry and cannot normally be transferred. All prizes are subject to availability and they may change at any time and Intel may award substitute prizes of equal or greater value. A cash alternative is not available. The winner accepts responsibility for all federal, state and local taxes and fees in connection with the prizes. Taxes, if any, are the sole responsibility of the winning participant, and participants may be issued an IRS Form 1099 for the ARV of any awarded prize. This Contest is void where prohibited or restricted by law, and subject to applicable federal, state provincial and local laws.
11. Intel does not provide any warranty on the prizes. To the fullest extent allowable by law, Intel specifically disclaims any representations or warranties, express or implied, regarding the prizes, including any implied warranty of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose and implied warranties arising from course of dealing or course of performance.
12. We may, on notifying you, immediately suspend or terminate your rights, if you breach these rules or if we reasonably believe that you have submitted an Entry in violation of these rules.
13. You can withdraw your Entry at any time by notifying us. If an Entry is withdrawn your rights to win a prize in this Contest are lost.
14. These rules apply to your Entry and the resources, unless we provide any items to you under more specific terms, in which case those more specific terms will apply to the relevant items. We may make changes to these rules at any time without notice to you. The most current version of the rules can be reviewed on the Intel® SN website. Entering the Contest or accepting prizes will constitute acceptance of the revised rules.
15. Our only responsibilities with respect to the Contest are set out in these rules. These rules prevail in the event of any conflict or inconsistency with any other communications, including advertising or promotional materials.
16. For any feedback or questions regarding the Contest or the prizes you can contact Intel by sending a letter, an email, isn.support@intel.com or by participating in the Contest discussion forum. http://software.intel.com/en-us/forums/)
Physical address:
Intel Corporation
Software & Services Group - Intel Software Network
5000 W Chandler Boulevard
Chandler, Arizona 85226
17. If Intel improperly denies you any prizes, Intel's entire liability and your sole and exclusive remedy will be limited to a distribution of the equivalent amount of prizes as set forth above. By participating in the Contest, you waive any and all rights to bring any claim or action related to such matters in any forum beyond one (1) year after the first occurrence of the kind of act, event, condition or omission upon which the claim or action is based.
18. If for any reason this Contest is not capable of running as planned due to infection by computer virus, bugs, tampering, unauthorized intervention, fraud, technical failures, or any other causes beyond the control of Intel which corrupt or affect the administration, security, fairness, integrity, or proper conduct of this Contest, Intel reserves the right at its sole discretion, to disqualify any individual who tampers with the Entry or voting process, and to cancel, terminate, modify or suspend the Contest.
19. Intel assumes no responsibility for any error, omission, interruption, deletion, defect, delay in operation or transmission, communications line failure, theft or destruction or unauthorized access to, or alteration of entries. Intel is not responsible for any problems or technical malfunction of any telephone network or telephone lines, computer online systems, servers, or providers, computer equipment, software, failure of any e-mail or Entry to be received by Intel on account of technical problems, human error or traffic congestion on the internet or at any web site, or any combination thereof, including any injury or damage to participant's or any other person's computer relating to or resulting from participation in this Contest or downloading any materials in this Contest.
20. The promoter of this Contest is Intel. The Contest is administered by:
Intel Corporation
2200 Mission College Blvd.
Santa Clara, CA 95052 USA
* Other names and brands may be claimed as the property of others
The Intel® Software Network team recently released source code for the Smoke Game Technology Demo. Smoke is a demo that showcases a framework to support n-way threading of game technologies. By properly threading a game it can have more accurate physics, smarter AI, more particles, and/or a faster frame-rate. Smoke demonstrates one way to achieve better games.
This contest encourages game developers to download the demo and submit back to the Intel® Software Network examples of how they used it, the benefits they experienced, or technical suggestions on how to improve the framework. The contest starts in June 1, 2009 and will continue up to December 31, 2009.
How To Enter
Submit a video, code sample, article / white paper, or a working demo using the Smoke code downloaded from the Intel Smoke Game Technology Demo site (http://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/smoke-game-technology-demo/) . The entry must use the Smoke code demo or must detail specific improvements and suggestions to the code demo. Entries must be received by midnight (U.S. Pacific Standard Time) of the last day of each month to qualify for the prizes for that month. Entries received beyond that deadline will qualify for prizes for the following month.
By uploading your entry, you agree to be bound by the Contest Rules (Rules) set forth in this document. If you do not agree to these Rules, do not submit your entry.
To enter you must also register for the contest at http://www.intel.com/software/thread-like-wildfire. You will be asked to enter contact information so that Intel can contact you for contest announcements and prize distribution. Your contact information will be treated in accordance with Intel’s privacy policy which you can review at http://www.intel.com/sites/corporate/privacy.htm?iid=homepage+ftr_privacy.
Prizes
Each month three (3) entries will be selected to each receive a USD $300 gift card from GAMESTOP* (www.gamestop.com), which can be redeemed for video games and other accessories offered at this retailer. GAMESTOP* can ship to any address worldwide and some of the games are available for digital download to your PC.
Criteria and Selection of Prize Recipients
The three (3) recipients of the prizes for each month will be selected by our Intel panel of community managers and application engineers who are involved in game development. Entries will be judged on creativity and innovative ideas of using, modifying or enhancing the Smoke Demo code. Winners will be notified by email at most fifteen days (15) after the submission deadline. An individual can submit multiple entries in a month (or throughout the contest) but can only receive a maximum of one (1) prize every month.
Legal Documents
Privacy Policy, http://www.intel.com/sites/sitewide/en_US/privacy/privacy.htm?iid=ftr+privacy
Terms of Use, http://www.intel.com/sites/corporate/termsofuse.htm
Thread Like Wildfire Contest Rules (this document).
Intel® Thread Like Wildfire Contest Rules
1. These rules (including the Intel Privacy Policy and the www.intel.com Terms of Use) govern the Intel® Thread Like Wildfire Contest (the “Contest”) and set out the terms and conditions between Intel Corporation and its affiliates (“Intel” or “us/we”) and each participant (“participant” or “you”).
2. You are eligible to participate in the Contest if you have registered for the Contest.
3. You must speak, read and understand English and you must be aged 18 years or over or you must obtain the consent of your parents or legal guardian before you participate in the Contest. If you apply to register for the Contest, if you contribute to the Contest or the Intel® SN community once you are registered or if you accept any Contest prizes, you accept these rules. Employees of Intel Corporation, its affiliates, subsidiaries, advertising and promotion agencies, and the immediate families of each may not enter. This limitation is void where prohibited.
4. The Contest is open to participants worldwide. All national and local laws and regulations of the resident’s country of residence apply. Residents of countries under U.S. embargo are not eligible to enter. The Contest is void wherever else it is restricted or prohibited by law.
5. We may refuse your Entry for any good reason.
6. Intel provides you with access to a variety of resources on Intel® SN, including communication forums, documentation, download areas, code samples, videos, blogs, articles and Programs (the “resources”).
7. You agree to submit Entries to the Contest on www.intel.com/software under the following conditions:
a. Intel does not claim ownership of your Entries to the Contest in form of sample code, content, videos, articles or any other Entries you submit to Intel® SN. By submitting your Entries, you are granting Intel and its affiliated companies the following worldwide, non-exclusive, perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free, unconditional, fully paid-up rights: (1) to make, have made, use, copy, reproduce, modify, and create derivative works of the Entries, (2) to publicly perform or display, import, broadcast, transmit, distribute (directly and indirectly through multiple tiers), license, offer to sell and sell, rent, lease, or lend copies of the Entries (and derivative works thereof), (3) to sublicense to third parties the foregoing rights, including the right to sublicense to further third parties, and (4) to publish your name or alias in connection with this Contest and your Entries.
b. Your Entries to the Contest will be available to other participants and to ensure they are safe and freely usable by other participants, you warrant that:
• you own or otherwise have all rights necessary for you to provide the Entries and grant the rights described above and you do not disclose any information which would constitute a violation of a confidentiality obligation;
• your Entries do not contain any viruses, worms, spy ware, or other components or instructions that are malicious, deceptive, or designed to limit or harm the functionality of a computer; and
• your Entries are not subject to license terms that require any software or documentation incorporating or being derived from your Entries to be licensed to others.
c. Apart from prizes offered as part of the Contest, no monetary compensation will be paid for any of your Contest Entries.
8. Intel is not responsible for Contest Entries not received due to lost, failed, delayed or interrupted connections or miscommunications, or other electronic malfunctions. Intel is not responsible for incorrect or inaccurate Entry, whether caused by you or any other persons or by any of the equipment or programming associated with or utilized in the Contest.
9. You may be required to provide Intel a Taxpayer Identification Number ("TIN") prior to the awarding of any prize. You may be required to sign and return releases of liability, declarations of eligibility, and where lawful, publicity consent agreements, within five (5) days of acknowledged notification. If a selected potential winner cannot be contacted, is ineligible (under these rules or due to a failure to comply with any of the other applicable policies, licenses, rules, and terms of service, fails to claim a prize, or fails to timely return the completed and executed releases/agreements as required), prize may be forfeited and an alternate potential winner may, at Intel’s discretion, be selected. Physical prizes awarded for the winning Entries will be sent to participants within six (6) weeks from the date of the notification email or confirmation of the winning participant’s physical address, whichever is later.
10. Prizes are personal to the participant submitting the winning Entry and cannot normally be transferred. All prizes are subject to availability and they may change at any time and Intel may award substitute prizes of equal or greater value. A cash alternative is not available. The winner accepts responsibility for all federal, state and local taxes and fees in connection with the prizes. Taxes, if any, are the sole responsibility of the winning participant, and participants may be issued an IRS Form 1099 for the ARV of any awarded prize. This Contest is void where prohibited or restricted by law, and subject to applicable federal, state provincial and local laws.
11. Intel does not provide any warranty on the prizes. To the fullest extent allowable by law, Intel specifically disclaims any representations or warranties, express or implied, regarding the prizes, including any implied warranty of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose and implied warranties arising from course of dealing or course of performance.
12. We may, on notifying you, immediately suspend or terminate your rights, if you breach these rules or if we reasonably believe that you have submitted an Entry in violation of these rules.
13. You can withdraw your Entry at any time by notifying us. If an Entry is withdrawn your rights to win a prize in this Contest are lost.
14. These rules apply to your Entry and the resources, unless we provide any items to you under more specific terms, in which case those more specific terms will apply to the relevant items. We may make changes to these rules at any time without notice to you. The most current version of the rules can be reviewed on the Intel® SN website. Entering the Contest or accepting prizes will constitute acceptance of the revised rules.
15. Our only responsibilities with respect to the Contest are set out in these rules. These rules prevail in the event of any conflict or inconsistency with any other communications, including advertising or promotional materials.
16. For any feedback or questions regarding the Contest or the prizes you can contact Intel by sending a letter, an email, isn.support@intel.com or by participating in the Contest discussion forum. http://software.intel.com/en-us/forums/)
Physical address:
Intel Corporation
Software & Services Group - Intel Software Network
5000 W Chandler Boulevard
Chandler, Arizona 85226
17. If Intel improperly denies you any prizes, Intel's entire liability and your sole and exclusive remedy will be limited to a distribution of the equivalent amount of prizes as set forth above. By participating in the Contest, you waive any and all rights to bring any claim or action related to such matters in any forum beyond one (1) year after the first occurrence of the kind of act, event, condition or omission upon which the claim or action is based.
18. If for any reason this Contest is not capable of running as planned due to infection by computer virus, bugs, tampering, unauthorized intervention, fraud, technical failures, or any other causes beyond the control of Intel which corrupt or affect the administration, security, fairness, integrity, or proper conduct of this Contest, Intel reserves the right at its sole discretion, to disqualify any individual who tampers with the Entry or voting process, and to cancel, terminate, modify or suspend the Contest.
19. Intel assumes no responsibility for any error, omission, interruption, deletion, defect, delay in operation or transmission, communications line failure, theft or destruction or unauthorized access to, or alteration of entries. Intel is not responsible for any problems or technical malfunction of any telephone network or telephone lines, computer online systems, servers, or providers, computer equipment, software, failure of any e-mail or Entry to be received by Intel on account of technical problems, human error or traffic congestion on the internet or at any web site, or any combination thereof, including any injury or damage to participant's or any other person's computer relating to or resulting from participation in this Contest or downloading any materials in this Contest.
20. The promoter of this Contest is Intel. The Contest is administered by:
Intel Corporation
2200 Mission College Blvd.
Santa Clara, CA 95052 USA
* Other names and brands may be claimed as the property of others
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